Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that Iraq had achieved " a complicated scientific leap " when it successfully tested the launching . |
| 2 | It successfully combines the appeal of project work with the cognitive teaching of grammar . |
| 3 | First , it developed the concept of integrated and comprehensive provision ; secondly , in making a connection between school and wage-earning ‘ it successfully rendered the transition as a social and educational process ; thirdly , it made vocational guidance and after-care appear to be essential features of any youth employment scheme ; fourthly , it showed that the service could offer significant opportunities for exercising a personal influence over the adolescent and his family . |
| 4 | The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth on April 29 following a five-day mission during which it successfully deployed the US$1,500 million Hubble Space Telescope jointly developed by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the European Space Agency ( ESA ) . |
| 5 | In a string of unconnected announcements , IBM Corp yesterday said that the version of DB2 for OS/2 is generally available after a successful beta test , that it has a set of software development tools for the object-oriented C++ language , and it duly launched the Thinkpad 720 . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister 's speech was eagerly anticipated by the educational and wider community and it duly received the full media treatment . |
| 7 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 8 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 9 | The changing relationship between the newspaper and its readers and the changing content of the newspaper had one other important impact on the long-term development of the press : it fundamentally altered the newspaper 's expectations of its readers . |
| 10 | Pupils can be encouraged or discouraged as writers by what the teacher does with their writing , and the way you receive written work and respond to it powerfully affects the work the pupils do next time . |
| 11 | The toggle switch is two-position , and flicking it on takes the sound straight to a pre-determined setting . |
| 12 | Because even if the element of confidentiality in the documents is entirely lost , the rule nevertheless clearly caters to other considerations : it expressly empowers the court ‘ for special reasons ’ to order the undertaking to continue . |
| 13 | It forcibly illustrates the principles currently at issue . |
| 14 | Every thing was alright , though it rather took the wind out of my sails to know that I would n't get to speak to him after all . |
| 15 | This last point implies that psychoanalysis , as such , is not concerned with the truth or falsity of religious beliefs , and that it rather counteracts the earlier arguments about religious beliefs being neither justified by sense experience nor rational arguments . |
| 16 | It rather wiped the smile from Jenna 's face . |
| 17 | Does n't it rather vitiate the nature of Cabinet government , though , if a decision , like the one to remove all exchange control , a very fundamental one for any economy , is in fact worked up , although it goes to full Cabinet in the end , in such a body ? |
| 18 | It rather pulls the rug from under all those James Bond films . |
| 19 | Gold paint never gives a satisfactory finish , as it rarely matches the beautiful patina of old gilding , which in turn helps to distinguish the genuine article from a reproduction . |
| 20 | A local candidate at variance with the national campaign may please the press but it rarely wins the people . |
| 21 | The difficulty with this direct form of government is that it rarely survives the death of the caudillo . |
| 22 | Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility . |
| 23 | MI5 will remain as unaccountable as it always has been and since it blatantly ignored the 1952 directive for over three decades without once being publicly called to account there is no reason to believe that MI5 will be any more law-abiding now . |
| 24 | It is a labour of love by a cast which includes some of Scotland 's finest and best known actors , and while being an expression of passion for theatre it paradoxically undermines the title John Byrne gave to the last of his celebrated trilogy . |
| 25 | Some like it hot Beat the heat with Nigel Colborn as he highlights plants that wo n't desert their post in a drought . |
| 26 | Although in terms of outgoings this type of mortgage is the most expensive , it arguably provides the best value since , having repaid the mortgage , the balance of the pension fund ( 75% ) is applied to purchasing an annuity giving a guaranteed income for life . |
| 27 | In early 1944 , Stilwell 's army began to advance from India , building a road as it slowly approached the Japanese base at Myitkyina , 240 kilometres distant . |
| 28 | it mostly concerns the small details and seemingly unimportant events which make up my experience as a woman and a mother . |
| 29 | When a firm buys a new machine , it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost . |
| 30 | NGF is normally taken up at nerve terminals and transported along the nerve fibres to the cell body , where it presumably regulates the amount of peptide . |